Enhancements & Fixed Issues

Enhancements

• Graphic buttons in the Welcome dialog are now green to match the Storyboard Pro brand.
• The Text tool now remembers the last font you used with it.
• Storyboard Pro now supports True Type Collection (.ttc) fonts. These are font packages containing several True Type Font (.ttf) files. If you have any TTC font installed on your system, you will be able to use them with the Text tool, when formatting captions as well as in Burn-in options when exporting your project.
• The Terminology Style option was removed from the Japanese localization of Storyboard Pro, as the Japanese terminology is the same for animation and live action.
• The Start Didaction and Emoji and Symbols menu entries have been removed from the Edit top menu. Those entries were automatically added by macOS and were not compatible with Storyboard Pro.
• Toolbars in the top menu and the context menu are now listed in alphabetical order.
• Views in the top menu are now listed in alphabetical order.
• Graphic buttons in the Welcome dialog are now green to match the Storyboard Pro brand.

Fixed Issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

• Storyboard Pro fails to launch on macOS 10.15 Catalina.
• Storyboard Pro crashes when undoing changes done with the Centerline Editor tool.
• On Windows, when drawing a very long brush stroke with a pen tablet then immediately drawing another stroke, the second stroke starts off with a straight line segment.
• The Spacebar key can still be used to pan views after the user unsets it as the keyboard shortcut for the Free Pan and Zoom command.
• Mouse pointer becomes default mouse pointer when a notification appears on macOS.
• Storyboard Pro fails to import XML sequences exported from OpenTimelineIO for conformation.
• Custom Write node parameters are not exported when exporting Harmony scenes with the Rendered Animatic option.
• Exporting a storyboard in PDF format by running a Storyboard Pro script in a command line interface may cause it to have missing information and garbage text.
• When using the Stamp tool with the Draw Behind tool mode, the different strokes in the stamp's artwork are laid on the canvas in their reverse order.
• On macOS, attempting to Save As causes Storyboard Pro to freeze if a folder with the same name as your project name exists in the target directory.
• Attempting to Save As inside the project folder will cause the ensuing error message to keep reappearing indefinitely.
• Storyboard Pro crashes if the user cuts and paste a clip, then undoes and pastes again.
• Selecting View > Show Tab Bar from the top menu may cause Storyboard Pro to crash on macOS 10.12.
• When using the Rectangle,  Ellipse or Line tool with the Snap and Align tool mode, scrolling in or out of the drawing space causes the alignment hints to be offset.
• Pressing the Del (Windows) or ⌫ (macOS) causes Storyboard Pro to crash in the following circumstances:
  • When moving a camera keyframe.
  • When adjusting the in-point, out-point of a sound clip, or when moving one of its volume keyframes.
  • When moving an animation keyframe in a video clip.
• Pressing Del (Windows) or ⌫ (macOS) to delete the selected panel while attempting to resize it resizes the previous panel.
• Attempting to import a 3D model into a 2D scene while the timeline playhead is past the last panel in the project, then cancelling, causes Storyboard Pro to crash. 
• Attempting to add a scene between two scenes and then cancelling may cause Storyboard Pro to crash if a custom default panel layout is saved to the user's preferences.
• Attempting to import an XML sequence that contains video files instead of images for conformation causes Storyboard Pro to crash.
• Camera frame in Stage View and Camera View is too thin when using a High DPI (Windows) or Retina (macOS) display.
• When duplicating a panel containing vector artwork imported from a PDF, the layers in the duplicate panel are copied from different panels.
• In the Timeline view, the zone in which a template can be dropped to insert it as a new panel at the end of the scene is too narrow and is easy to miss.
• The overlay indicating a volume keyframe's value in dB remains on the screen when dragging the keyframe outside the sound clip to delete it.
• Crash may occur when attempting to add a new sequence while the Timeline View playhead is beyond the last panel.
• If the user extracts a scene from a project, deletes the extracted project and extracts the same scene in the same target folder with the same name, the audio in the extracted project will be corrupted.
• Moving panels in the Timeline view has no effect if the Timeline view is not docked to the main application window.
• Main application window does not appear if workspace configuration file is invalid or corrupted.
• When drawing a closed shape with the Auto Fill tool mode and a custom colour that does not exist in the project's palette, the shape gets filled with red.
• Playback skips frames when playing a project for the first time since opening it on macOS.
• Exporting a Windows Media Video (.wmv) movie at 100% quality creates a corrupted movie file. 
• The value of volume keyframes, displayed in decibels, is slightly inaccurate relative to their actual value, which is stored in amplitude ratio, in the project file.
• Drawing stroke does not appear until it is completed when drawing with the Pencil tool with the Draw Behind tool mode enabled and while using any modifier key.
• The Easy Drag mode of the Select tool does not work when pressing and holding the ⌘ key on macOS.
• The Show / Hide button for a video track does not work properly if the timeline playhead is over a video clip, but not over a panel.
• Left and right area of the Timeline view end up scrolled at different positions when clicking and dragging on the timeline playhead up and down to make it scroll vertically.
• The Export Current Image command does not work when there are video clips but no panel at the current frame.
• When making a PDF preview of a panel using the Panel PDF Options view, if the PDF profile has a background image, it will obscure everything in the PDF preview except for the thumbnails and the logo.

• When using Storyboard Pro to run a script in a command line interface, the process does not terminate and outputs the following error:

  QThread: Destroyed while thread is still running

• Pasting formatted text in a caption field may result in lines temporarily overlapping each other.
• Attempting to open a Storyboard Pro Packed File that was created in Japanese trial mode (.tbpz) in full license mode results in Storyboard Pro attempting and failing to open an empty project.
• Entry in the Undo menu for updating the position of a 3D model rendered into a 2D layer has no text.
• It is possible to edit the artwork in a locked or hidden layer using the Select, Cutter, Perspective, Edit Gradient/Texture, Eraser, Paint or Close Gap tool if the artwork in this layer is selected using the Select All Drawings in Scene option of the Select tool or by selecting the locked or hidden layer among others layers and selecting the artwork with the Select tool.
• PDF Export view is not listed in the right alphabetical position in the Add View menu.
• No progress bar displays when saving a project on macOS.
• Checked state of the Remove exported panels from current project checkbox in the Split Storyboard dialog is saved even if the user clicks Cancel.
• Adding a transition fails if the default panel length is set to 3 frames or less and the Preserve project length when adding transitions preference is enabled.
• When a group layer is selected, its name does not appear in the status bar.
• Tool tip for the Overwrite Clips button is "Overwrite Sound Clips"
• Centre is misspelled "center" in various user interfaces.
• Error message when attempting to open a project created in Japanese trial mode in full license mode is not localized in languages other than English.
• Adding a transition between two scenes offsets the video and sound clips cued during the second scene backwards.
• "Brush 1" is missing from the Brush tool presets.
• The Perspective tool has an Align to Grid tool mode, which should only be available in Harmony.